Howard E. Koch (December 12, 1901 – August 17, 1995) was an American playwright and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
Born in New York City, New York, he was a graduate of Bard College and Columbia Law School. While practicing law in Hartsdale, New York, he began to write plays. Great Scott (1929), Give Us This Day (1933), and In Time to Come (1941) were produced on Broadway.
His radio work includ...
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Howard E. Koch (December 12, 1901 – August 17, 1995) was an American playwright and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
Born in New York City, New York, he was a graduate of Bard College and Columbia Law School. While practicing law in Hartsdale, New York, he began to write plays. Great Scott (1929), Give Us This Day (1933), and In Time to Come (1941) were produced on Broadway.
His radio work includes the Orson Welles radio drama The War of the Worlds (1938), which caused panic among some listeners for its documentary-like portrayal of an invasion of spaceships from Mars. The incident was dramatized into a 1975 TV movie, The Night That Panicked America.
Koch began writing for Hollywood studios. His first accepted screenplay was made into a 1940 film. Koch contributed dialogue to the popular film Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart, which he coscripted with writers Julius and Philip Epstein in 1942, and for which he received an Academy Award...
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